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Nurse.com
Sexually abused children is a topic no one likes to think about, but according to the U.S. Department of Justice, it’s a significant problem in this country with nearly 70 percent of all reported sexual assaults affecting children ages 17 and under.
Diane Daiber, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, a pediatric training specialist with the International Association of Forensic Nurses in Elkridge, Md., knows these statistics all too well.
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ANA\C, along with almost 70,000 other contributors, submitted a letter supporting VA’s Full Practice Authority rule allowing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) practicing to the full extent of their education and training in taking care of those who served our country in the U.S. military. ANA\C is a member of CA APRN Coalition and a proud supporter of SB 323 (Hernandez) and AB 1306 (Burke) giving full scope authority to nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives in CA. By submitting our letter to the VHA Director McDonald, we raised our voice and supported VA’s nurse practitioners, certified registered nurse anesthetists, certified nurse midwives, and clinical nurse specialists. ANA\C is leading the way!
 Last week ANA\C hosted a meeting with 9 representatives from Korea Hospital Nurse Association about safe staffing, staffing ratios in California, and about the circumstances and evidence that led CA nursing & healthcare leaders to pass such law in 1999. The Korean delegation included 3 nurses, national health insurance leader, physicians and researchers. We would like to thank Patricia McFarland, CEO of ACNL, for accepting our invitation and for sharing her knowledge, experience & nursing policy expertise with our Korean colleagues.
Medardo Aguilar (Riverside) Kathy Bailey (Newbury Park) Cristine Joy Baptista (Oakland) Troy Bodnar (San Francisco) Shannon Bullard (Yuba City) Vanessa Butler (Newport Beach) Toni Butler (Brentwood) Kathy Cadden (Simi Valley) Amanda Case (Twentynine Palms) Megan Crum (Oceanside) Glealyn Custodio (Canyon Country) Mary Claire Cuthbert (San Diego) Anilimreh Delos Reyes (Gardena) Andrea Donnelly (San Bruno) Maria Estrada (Santa Paula) Patrice Feci (Eureka) Anna Fine (San Jose) Roxanne Flaherty (Los Angeles) Sandra Gonzales (Salinas) Floyd Hammon (Fresno) Antoinette Herrera (Lodi) Kimberly Hinrichs (Redlands) Kelly Keller (Alameda) Melissa Lackey (Kingsburg) Rebecca Lesniak (Roseville) Patricia Levy (Susanville) Geovanna Lindo (Daly City) Taylor Machado (Dana Point) Cecilia Mamaril (Encino) Francesca Mangalindan (Los Angeles) Liudmila Mast (El Cajon) Malgorzata Mazur (Brea) Kim McAllister (Hayward) Mary Janet Mendoza (Cupertino) Jennifer Miller (Laguna Beach) Karyn Oconnor (Anaheim) Yolanda Owens (Mira Loma) Tereso Paez (Baldwin Park) Jill Polfer (Dana Point) Michael Purnell (San Francisco) Gianina Ring (Santa Ana) Tusdi Rodriguez (Los Angeles) Manfred Roy Salvador (Daly City) Catherine Serrato (San Pedro) Alice Shackelford (Red Bluff) Symore Silva (Vacaville) Sarah Stokely (Simi Valley) Dawn Surratt (Oakland) Stephanie Tarter (Vacaville) Hillary Terkelsen (Eureka) Danielle Tyson (LA Crescenta) Jonalyn Wallace (Piedmont) Elizabeth Wellen (Torrance) Janice Yee (San Jose) Kerry N Zenich (Paso Robles)
“The strategic use of humor is the single most critical nursing skill we have. It’s free, always available, and totally portable. Best of all, it starts working immediately.” — Karyn Buxman, nursetogether.com
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The Health Ministries Association (HMA) seeks your input on the draft Faith Community Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Third Edition, available at http://hmassoc.org/. Please review the document and use the 2016 Comment Form to submit recommendations, rationale, and supporting evidence, if available, by the closing date of FRIDAY, Aug. 15, 2016.
American Sentinel
n 2003, the Institute of Medicine set a goal that, by 2020, the majority of healthcare practices and decisions would be evidence-based. At about the same time, the nursing profession began to take an interest in evidence-based nursing practice (EBNP). The goal was to integrate the best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. EBNP involves identifying solidly researched findings and implementing them in daily practice, in order to increase the quality of patient care and deliver the most cost-effective nursing care possible.
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Culturally Congruent Care: Why Diversity Makes a Difference, an on-demand webinar, explains how nurses can provide culturally congruent care, reflect on understanding the values and beliefs nurses bring to the patient-nurse relationship, and identify knowledge, skills, and evidence-based tools to support culturally congruent nursing practice. Register Today!
Join the Center for Youth Wellness Oct. 19-21 for the 2016 Conference on Adverse Childhood Experiences and Pediatric Symposium in San Francisco. These co-events are a unique opportunity for every expert and practitioner committed to advancing the ACEs movement to come together to build a better future for children exposed to early adversity. Register today.
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HealthDay News
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability but the vast majority of strokes are preventable, according to a new study. Researchers discovered that 10 controllable risk factors account for 90 percent of all strokes worldwide. Of these modifiable risk factors, high blood pressure (hypertension) is the most important.
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Nurse.com
A nurse wrote about her situation in a physician-owned hospital where she worked in the OR for three years. One day, she was verbally berated by one of the surgeons in front of everyone in the OR and was forced to transfer to the PACU. The nurse was told to either accept the transfer or be terminated.
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Advance for NPs & PAs
Bacteria are found on everything we touch — a fact that, unfortunately, is forgotten far too often because we can't see them. So what would happen if people were shown magnified images of the actual bacteria they encounter on a daily basis? This is exactly what infection prevention and control specialists Ashley Gregory and Eman Chami did in a study at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
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By Ryan Clark
 Managing a staff shift from the long-held quantity-of-care model to the new quality-of-care model can be daunting and cumbersome, but it is a challenge that must be met for the progress of the healthcare industry. In a follow-up interview with MultiBriefs Exclusive (see Part I here), Cheri Bankston, RN, MSN, director of clinical advisory services for Curaspan, explains the ways hospital managers can help staff deal with the transition and "straddling the fence."
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Hospitals & Health Networks
Throughout my professional career, I have advocated for inclusive leadership across the health care field, including preparing and deploying health professionals. It is in our best interests to engage individuals who are committed to advancing safe, effective, equitable, efficient and person-centered services to the public, and prepare them to lead efforts to achieve the goals set forth by the American Hospital Association’s Equity of Care Committee.
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Health Leaders Media
Eye contact and authentic conversation can do more to improve patient satisfaction than following a checklist, says a patient who is an RN.
Let's cut right to the chase. We all know there's a lot of grumbling about patient satisfaction from the very people who deliver it—nurses.
Just last week, this meme popped up on a nurse friend's Facebook feed, "The only patient satisfaction score that matters… Did you die??"
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NBC News
The Justice Department went to court seeking to block two mergers involving four of the nation's five health insurance giants.
Arguing that the deals would limit competition, the government hoped to stop the planned mergers of Aetna and Humana and of Anthem and Cigna.
"These mergers would reshape the industry, eliminating two innovative competitors — Cigna and Humana — at a time when the industry is experimenting with new ways to lower health care costs," the government said in its court filings.
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HCP Live
The MD Magazine Peer Exchange “Managing Heart Failure Today: Current Best Practices and New Treatment Options” features a panel of physician experts discussing key factors to consider when making treatment decisions for patients with heart failure and their own clinical experiences with recently approved medications for the treatment of heart failure.
This Peer Exchange is moderated by Peter Salgo, MD, professor of medicine and anesthesiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and an associate director of Surgical Intensive Care at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
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Cure Today
Nurse practitioners are embracing more responsibility in survivorship care because of a shortage of oncologists in the United States. An analysis of survivors under the care of nurse practitioners found that patients were provided with quality care in accordance with Institute of Medicine (IOM) standards, demonstrating that nurse practitioners are capable of such duties, according to Mary McCabe.
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